6. Jacob de la Lande and Hendrik Fynje were Dumas’ business associates in trading ventures with America; see Lüthy, Banque protestante, II, 615–16 n. The commissioners did not answer this request, and Dumas repeated it in his letter below, March 3.

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“Dumas to [the American Commissioners], 21 February 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, version of January 18, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-25-02-0550. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 25, October 1, 1777, through February 28, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986, pp. 700–701.]

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